PKATINCOLA. 



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indistinct zone or cap. In size they vary from "7 to '81 in length, 

 and from *55 to - 6 in breadth. 



4. Near Inverness (E. Hargitt). 



4. Cambridgeshire. 



6. Taplow, Berkshire. 



5. Haddenham, Bucks, 22nd May. 



4. Haddenham, 28th May. 



6. New Forest (H. Saunders). 

 6. Finchley Common. 



6. Churt, Surrey. 



6. Churt. 



6. Brighton, May (B. B. Sharpe). 



6. Brighton, May {Sway stand). 



5. Brighton, May. 



4. France (Noury : Hargitt Coll.). 



5. Pomerania (T. Holland). 



2. Reval, Baltic Provs. {Bussow). 



Seebohm Coll. 



F. Bond, Esq. [P.], 



Gould Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gould Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Fratincola rubicola {Linn.). 



Saxicola rubicola, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 286, tab. xxiii. 



fig. 7, a, b, c (1845-54) ; Heivitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 107, 



pi. xxx. fig. i (1856). 

 Pratincola rubicola, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 27. fig. 12 (1855-63) ; 



Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 307 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. ii. p. 263, part. ("1873) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 185 (1879) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. 



p. 317 (1883) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 191, pi. 51. fig. 16 (1896) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 171 (1903). 



The eggs of the Stonechat are of the same type as those of the 

 Whinchat, but the ground-colour is of a paler greenish blue, and the 

 spotting is frequently very dense. The Collection contains no plain 

 eggs ; all the examples are marked in varying degrees with pale 

 chestnut. In some there are merely a few faint specks and smears; 

 in the majority the markings consist of specks, spots, and small 

 blotches, very thickly disposed over the broader end, nearly always 

 in the form of a conspicuous cap or zone. They measure from 'OS 

 to *75 in length, and from "55 to -6 in breadth. 



Co. Waterford, 13th April (B. J. 



Ussher). 

 Co. Waterford, 13th April (B. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 24th April (B. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 5th May (B. J. U.). 

 Co. Waterford, 19th May (B.J. U.). 

 Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, 



28th May (O. Salvin). 

 Hampstead Heath (O. S.). 

 Brighton Race-course (E. Bond : 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 Brig-hton Race-course (F. B. : 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 Brighton (H. Saunders). 

 Brighton, May (B. B. Sharpe). 

 Brighton, May (R. B. S.). 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



